 Like his other magazines it encouraged readers to submit articles and reviews.A 1980 advertisement for the magazine promised that it would "tell you the truth … the good things about the TRS-80 and the not so good" because "Wayne Green has never been one to mince words".By 1982 "80 Micro" was the third largest magazine in terms of obtaining advertising, selling 152,000 issues; only "Vogue" and "BYTE" were larger.